Lord Privy Seal

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The Lord Privy Seal is a senior ministerial office in the British government, historically responsible for the monarch’s privy seal but now largely a sinecure often combined with other cabinet duties.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cabinet position
government office
ministerial office
advisedBy Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
appliesToJurisdiction England
Great Britain
United Kingdom
appointedBy British monarch
surface form: Monarch of the United Kingdom
country United Kingdom
governmentBranch executive branch of the United Kingdom
hasCharacteristic can be used to give cabinet rank to a minister without a departmental portfolio
no specific departmental responsibilities in the modern era
often held concurrently with Leader of the House of Lords
sometimes held concurrently with Leader of the House of Commons
hasCurrentRole largely sinecure cabinet office
often combined with other ministerial duties
hasDuty custody of the monarch’s privy seal
hasHistoricalFunction authentication of royal documents with the privy seal
management of the privy seal
hasHistoricalRole officer responsible for the privy seal of the sovereign
hasStatus great office of state (historically classified)
senior ministerial office
hasStyle The Right Honourable
hasTitleForm Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (historical variant)
Lord Privy Seal self-link
inception 14th century
isPositionHeldBy member of the House of Lords or House of Commons
language English
memberOf British Cabinet
surface form: Cabinet of the United Kingdom
officeHoldersInclude Anthony Eden
Baroness Stowell of Beeston
surface form: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Clement Attlee
David Lidington
Harold Macmillan
John Major
Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
Penny Mordaunt
William Hague
partOf British Cabinet
surface form: Cabinet of the United Kingdom

UK government
surface form: Government of the United Kingdom
relatedTo Lord Chancellor of England
surface form: Lord Chancellor

Lord Chamberlain
surface form: Lord Great Chamberlain

Lord President of the Council
Privy Council
surface form: Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Privy seal
seat London, England
surface form: London
usedBy UK government
surface form: British government

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William Pitt the Elder positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Lord Beaverbrook positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Lord Beaverbrook positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
this entity surface form: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence) positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Lord Privy Seal hasTitleForm Lord Privy Seal self-link
Secretary of State for the Southern Department precededBy Lord Privy Seal
this entity surface form: King’s Principal Secretary
Edward Heath positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Clement Attlee positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Earl of Chatham positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: William Pitt the Elder
Anthony Eden positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Second Baldwin government includesOffice Lord Privy Seal
The Duke of Grafton positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Earl of Sunderland positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sir John Anderson positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Lord Curzon positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
James Henry Thomas positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
James Henry Thomas notableOffice Lord Privy Seal
Baroness Stowell of Beeston positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Alec Douglas-Home positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
2nd Earl of Selborne positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
Margaret Jay positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Thomas Hoccleve employer Lord Privy Seal
this entity surface form: Office of the Privy Seal
William Maxwell Aitken positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Lord Irwin heldPosition Lord Privy Seal
Pitt the Elder positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Great Officer of State hasPart Lord Privy Seal
Earl of Manchester positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
John positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
The Earl of Avon positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: Anthony Eden
John Boyd-Carpenter positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
this entity surface form: Lord Privy Seal of the United Kingdom
William Whitelaw positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
this entity surface form: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Thomas Cromwell positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
Viscount Templewood positionHeld Lord Privy Seal
subject surface form: Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood